Partitioning

Please Note: If you decide to use Disk Druid to partition your system's hard drive, be aware that, at this time, Disk Druid cannot initialize disk labels on the SPARC. Therefore, the drive must have a valid disk label on it prior to attempting to use Disk Druid. A disk label can be written using fdisk -- after that, Disk Druid should work normally.

There is one additional step required when partitioning a hard drive for Red Hat Linux/SPARC. You must create the third partition of every disk as type "Whole Disk," spanning from cylinder 0 to the end of the disk. It shouldn't be used in any way, but it must exist. You can still create other partitions as you normally would.

Note that this partition will already exist on any disk that has been used under SunOS or Solaris. If you are partitioning a new disk, you can use fdisk's s command to create a standard disk label (which includes the whole-disk partition). If you don't care for the size of the other partitions created by s, you can delete those partitions and recreate them with the sizes you want.